A list of 13 words by notanotherjazzpoet.
- preggers appears on 22 other lists
- prego appears on 2 other lists
- knocked up appears on just this list
- carrying appears on 3 other lists
- with child appears on 2 other lists
- bun in the oven appears on just this list
- expecting appears on 2 other lists
- spawning appears on 2 other lists
- inseminated appears on just this list
- baby on board appears on just this list
- on stork watch appears on just this list
- the rabbit died appears on 3 other lists
- we're pregnant appears on just this list
chained_bear *singing*
There are worse things I could dooooo
Than go with a boy... or twoooooo... Jun 19, 2009
madmouth oh--from Grease: "Rizzo, I hear you're PG" Jun 19, 2009
yarb Up the duff is a particularly unsavoury British idiom. Jun 18, 2009
chained_bear I know it was a long time ago that this issue was raised, and it's possible it was done so jokingly (though it doesn't look like it), but something needs to be said here: We're pregnant is stupid (but understandable) simply because men don't get pregnant. I would say (and have said) I'm pregnant, because it's simply more accurate. That doesn't make me passive-aggressive, and it doesn't make me dishonest. If some dude who impregnated me doesn't understand why I'm saying "I'm pregnant" to him, then he's got much bigger problems than "it isn't clear to him," or some ridiculous assumption based on a hundred-year-old quote that I must have been sleeping around.
Now back to your regularly scheduled commenting. *returns to enraged hormonal hibernation* Jun 18, 2009
madmouth there's a Bosnian euphemism that translates to in the second state.
in Atwood's Life Before Man, a woman is having an imaginary dialogue with a man she knows doesn't want to have a child with her: "'William, I've got a bun in the oven. Your bun'. 'Well,' he'd say, 'take it out.'" Jun 18, 2009
skipvia I've always hated in a family way. Jun 18, 2009
milosrdenstvi "To become more in an interesting condition" actually quite nearly approximates the literal translation of the Greek Facebook for the English "in a relationship". Jun 18, 2009
chained_bear Or the old standby, impregnated. Jun 18, 2009
Prolagus In an interesting condition. Jun 17, 2009
plethora Eating for two? Mar 25, 2008
notanotherjazzpoet I'm definitely with AZ on we're pregnant. Seanahan, just because you infer that Fitzgerald thought most women are dishonest doesn't mean he implied it. And I can think of many, many ways for a married woman to be dishonest besides unfaithfulness. Do you merely jest? Mar 6, 2007
abraxaszugzwang reason as you will; it's still just plain awful. Mar 3, 2007
seanahan Here's the thing. According to Fitzgerald, "dishonesty is a woman is something you never blame deeply". From this we can infer that most women are dishonest, which for married women means unfaithful. So, when a woman is pregnant, and she says "I'm pregnant", it isn't clear to the man that it is his child. So, to avoid any unpleasant questions, many women will say "we're pregnant". Of course, particularly passive-aggressive women will say "I'm pregnant", trying to gauge their husbands feeling on their infidelity. Feb 26, 2007
notanotherjazzpoet Good call. Feb 26, 2007
abraxaszugzwang OH OH OH! How about, "Joseph, we're pregnant"? Feb 26, 2007